Stanford Engineering Puzzle

March 2009

A big thanks to alumnus Ken Futamura for this month's puzzle, which is (to borrow a TV drama slogan) "ripped from the headlines." In other words, the solution to the puzzle is a pithy description of one of our recent research stories. We won't tell you which one, of course, but a hint would be that this is a puzzle in which SLACers should excel.

Directions

Complete the following headline. Each of the 7 words in the headline can be formed by combining a pair of clue words below and rearranging the letters.  Each of the 14 clue words is used once. When you are done, send the secret words to Marge Kastner. In this case the secret words are the two clue words you must combine to form the first word of the headline. Have fun.

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ACE
ARM
BLIND
CORAL
CUE
CURE
FAULT
GREEN
MULE
PAST
PRESS
ROOF
STAR
STRIP

"Winning" entries
Here are the folks who get Web credits for their solutions--the first 20 in the gate and every 10th one after that.

1)	Michael Connors
2)	Ed Wilson
3)	Dan Newell
4)	Ken Duisenberg
5)	Dave Morgali
6)	Wade Powell
7)	Lynda Leidiger
8)	Timothy Whalen
9)	John Maly
10)	Sean McGraw
11)	Ratan Ramchandani
12)	Philip James
13)	Mark Rattner
14)	Mark Perkins
15)	Nick Baxter
16)	Edward Conklin
17)	Shravan Nargundkar
18)	Michael Micheletti
19)	Paul Swenson
20)	Sarie Uechi
30)	Brett Hannigan
40)	Carol Paymer
50)	Adam Peltoniemi
60)	Martin Frost
70)	Raul Laborde
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Do you want to try your hand at past puzzles? Go to our Archive page.